Highlights (in 4 parts) taken from hours of footage from two sources. This includes the best footage of Hitler, Eva Braun, and all the high-ranking Nazis. All are identified below. Plus some narration and readings from Braun's diary.

Hitler on the Berghof terrace (his Obersalzberg home), Eva diving, etc.
(:48) AH with Albert Speers' kids.
(1:38) AH with Albert Speer
(1:56) AH with magnifying glass - note how his hand shakes. Early signs of either Parkinson's or possible venereal disease.
(2:07) Eva with AH and his physician Dr. Morell on terrace
(3:24) AH and his dog, Blondi
(3:50) Eva, Mrs. Speer, and AH's cook picking irises
(4:47) Joseph Goebbels arrives at the Berghof
(5:20) AH in his tea house or Teehaus building near the Berghof
(5:57) AH with Heinrich Hoffmann, friend and official photographer. He introduced Eva to AH -- she was working for him at the time.

Note: As a student of history and WWII these films are edited and presented as a historical curio and a source of information. No one else that I know of has bothered to identify the people in these silent films as I have. This series is not intended to promote any political view or personal bias. It is simply a historical record captured on film. I am aware that the release of the Braun movies has upset some people as they appear to humanize Hitler. But I believe these films are useful in knocking Hitler down to size, reducing the monumental impersonal image of him to human scale.

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